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Building 176 hands-on LLM exercises revealed 5 patterns in where developers actually get stuck. The data surprised us.
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We Asked 5 LLMs About Themselves. Only One Was Honest.
Five LLMs, five self-assessment questions. Four gave PR-approved hedges on limits and sycophancy. One gave something an engineer could actually use.
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Abraham Jeron · May 7, 2026 Build Stories 13 min read
How We Built TinkerLLM: 176 Exercises, 2 Wrong Turns
Full build story: 3 modules, 23 learning units, 176 exercises. Plus the two design decisions we had to reverse before TinkerLLM actually worked.
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